Computation increasingly takes place not on an individual device, but distributed throughout a material or environment, whether it be a silicon surface, a network of wireless devices, a collection of biological cells or a programmable material. Emerging programming models embrace this reality and provide abstractions inspired by physics, such as computational fields, that allow such systems to ...

Measuring capacity is a task that sounds simple, but in reality can be quite complex. In addition, the lack of a unified nomenclature on this subject makes it increasingly difficult to properly build, test, and use techniques and tools built around these constructs. This document provides definitions for the terms ’Capacity’ and ’Available Capacity’ related to IP traffic traveling between a sou...

The notion of final theory results from a contrasting understanding of physical reality. Currently, different approaches aim to unify the four forces of nature and discuss whether a final theory may be possible. A key feature of a final theory is irreducibility, however this property has not been seriously exploited. In the paper we present an irreducible mathematical theory that describes phys...

This paper uses experimental investigation and theoretical derivation to study the unified failure mechanism and ultimate capacity model of reinforced concrete (RC) members under combined axial, bending, shear and torsion loading. Fifteen RC members are tested under different combinations of compressive axial force, bending, shear and torsion using experimental equipment designed by the authors...

We present ASIST, a technique for transforming point clouds by replacing objects with their semantically equivalent counterparts. Transformations of this kind have applications in virtual reality, repair of fused scans, and robotics. ASIST is based on a unified formulation of semantic labeling and object replacement; both result from minimizing a single objective. We present numerical tools for...

after the victory of the islamic revolution of iran a great number of islamic jurists entered the political scene, an event which made iranian politics to a great extent under a legalist approach. considering the structure of law and the way jurists look at reality, they have a different type of personality from other politicians. using the ideal type method, this article attempts to study isla...

Measuring capacity is a task that sounds simple, but in reality can be quite complex. In addition, the lack of a unified nomenclature on this subject makes it increasingly difficult to properly build, test, and use techniques and tools built around these constructs. This document provides definitions for the terms ’Capacity’ and ’Available Capacity’ related to IP traffic traveling between a sou...

Wireless access to the internet has emerged as a potential "killer application" which will demand sophisticated spoken language technology in order to realize its full potential. There are many challenges that must be met to make the "Voice Web" a reality – recognition technology, network infrastructure, new devices, and the development of new user interface paradigms. The Voice Web offers an o...

Cooperation of heterogeneous legacy information systems in organizations is a reality, offering to users a unified access to heterogeneous and distributed information. Our goal is to capitalize design knowledge involved in cooperative application development and to define cooperation patterns adapted from Fowler’s analysis patterns. These patterns, derived from ACSIS cooperative architecture, a...